Central Refrigerated Truck Stop

TruckingPhotographer · Mar 10, 2010

bigrigtruckdriver said: ↑

i posted this a few times in this forum. I met a friend in training and we decided to team, because we thought two knuckleheads would be better than one in a truck. Don't do it!!!!!

Pay, 30cpm split for all miles. Which means you only make 15 cents a mile they only ran us solo miles, and we had 3 different fleet managers. The way teaming at central works is if you are husband and wife, but if not you are giving away half your paycheck.

We were only running solo miles, sitting alot, and the biggest mile week we had was only 5200 miles and we only had that once most weeks were 3000 or less, our low week was 1000 miles.
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as a team we only wanted 3500 a week and they could not even get us that!! We did not want to run 1000 miles a day it was unsafe and unhealthy for us. Young drivers can do it like we did when we were young, and die young too.

TruckingPhotographer · Mar 10, 2010

Thanks to dumb planners, they are saying we can no longer drop a load unless the planner has it covered. Miles will drop drastically over this new one!!!! Drivers will always get the short end of the stick!

TruckingPhotographer · Mar 10, 2010

jtrnr1951 said: ↑

How can anybody read all this information, from people that have been employed there, and still want to go to central ?????
Central has been around for years now, it has ALWAYS been about this bad, and yet new drivers can't wait to get there....

What the heck am I missing here ??????????????
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DESPERATE PEOPLE! DREAMERS WHO THINK TRUCK DRIVERS ARE RICH!

TruckingPhotographer · Mar 10, 2010

ChromeDome said: ↑

And another round of new hopefulls come.
Eyes bright and full of wanderlust for the road.
Family's looking toward a better life, middle class here we come.
6 short weeks of training, then you too can join the ranks of the elite, the Professional Truck Drivers of America.
The drivers of these big rigs are the lifeblood of America. Moving our economy on 18 wheels.
Come, be a Gypsy of the highway, serve your country and make 35,000 to 50,000 a year.
Or you can make much more as an Owner Operator.
After 4 short months on the road, you can lease to own a brand new Kenworth or Peterbilt. Be your own boss. Or top owner op made 200,000 last year.

Now the other side of the coin.

You sign a 1 year contract to a company.
They look at drivers as being less than dirt. See all the other trainee's coming? You are a number and a seat warmer. They know that most have no plans to stay with them for more than a year. They will test you hard to see if they can get you to run illegal. They hope you will. They can get really good rates for some hot loads. But if you get caught that is ok too, they will let you go so it will not effect their safety rateing.
The lease drivers are making the company the most money.
They fully own them.
The truck payments get made if the truck is moving or not.
The fuel and maintenance are all paid for by the driver.
You get what?? .85 cpm for this?? And get charged several thousand dollars a month for driving for next to nothing?

Most trucking company's have a break even point on cost per mile at over 1.50 cpm. For the vast majority it is over 1.60 cpm. But you get .85 cpm and a fuel surcharge, so with 3.00 per gal fuel you see about 1.10 cpm for loaded miles?
All the while making payments that no company would think is fair. That brand new 387 Pete, with 0 down would cost about 2000 a month to own. Instead you pay 2000 a month to use it, then if you want to buy it in 4 years you have to pay what they think the fair market value is. Which a 4 year old 387 with 500,000+ miles is only worth about 30k, they will insist it is worth close to 50k.
Oh, and if I remember correctly. I thought the lease was with Interstate Leasing, which is a company fully owned by Jerry. Not really a real company, just a paper company. Also the company that Swift uses.

For company drivers.
In a year you can move to some other company's. No really good small ones though, they cannot get the insurance on drivers with less than 3 years OTR.
So instead you have the others. Granted, most of these are better run than Central. But the big ones will all have many of the same issues you will see with them.
Fairly low miles, low pay, half maintained equipment, drivers as numbers, low home time etc.

Trucking can be a good gig, but you cannot come into it as just being a job. It uses too much of your time to just be a job.
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WHEN YOUR LEASE IS UP HAVE A LAWYER WITH YOU, I HAVE A GOOD CORPORATE LAWYER ON RETAINER AND I SEND HIM COPIES OF EVERYTHING. I ALSO FORWARD EVERYTHING TO HIM IN EMAILS ETC. I INTEND TO PURCHASE MY TRUCK AT THE END OF MY LEASE. IF THEY TRY ANYTHING FUNNY IT WILL BE TO THEIR DEMISE. CORPORATE LAWYER TOLD ME THEY OWN THE LEASING IT IS A FINE LINE, AND COMPANIES DO IT TO AVOID SUITS, BUT IF YOU GET YOURSELF A LAWYER HE WILL KEEP YOU UP TO DATE. I WILL HAVE ONE GOING IN WITH ME WHEN I GO TO BUY THE TRUCK, AND THE LAWYER WILL HAVE A PRINT OUT OF WHAT THE TRUCK IS REALLY WORTH!

TruckingPhotographer · Mar 10, 2010

1badz28 said: ↑

i dont know about yall but i think its about time to put this thread in the bad trucking co forum
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LMAO THEY ARE ALL BAD COMPANIES NOT ONE IS ON THE UP AND UP!

TruckingPhotographer · Mar 10, 2010

mlbrowninwa said: ↑

all the post here have opened my eyes!! I think if i decide driving to be the way to go i will go to a local school and just pay the money myself. At least that will give me four more weeks at home before joining a company to finish the training. I now look at company supplied training as a last resort.
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you are already showing great intelligence. Company schools are never the way to go they are the worse. One driver told me his training with central was horrible. He said his trainer taught him nothing. Not even about the computer. He just cared about his miles! And central ran them like a team, he slept not trained.

TruckingPhotographer · Mar 10, 2010

Dark_Majesty_06 said: ↑

My buddy lived in portland, or and they promised him plenty of freight to get him home.. Well come to find out.. There is freight going there.. Just usually guys with dibs on it get it.. It took him a month and. Half to get home usually.. And that's with having a home time request in for a month.. 2 weeks it would take em to find him something...because if you live in the west.. You will be running in the east.
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AND IF YOU LIVE IN THE EAST YOU WILL BE RUNNING IN THE WEST, BUT THE PLANNERS GIVE THE BEST LOADS TO THEIR BUDDIES. THEY HAVE THEIR FAVORITES!

TruckingPhotographer · Mar 10, 2010

smadronia said: ↑

Company drivers are not supposed to refuse loads. If you can do it, your dm is letting it happen for whatever reason, maybe he agrees with you on how crap they are. But don't expect whoever's watching your dm's fleet to be the same.
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YEP AND LEASE OPERATORS ARE NOT SPOSE TO BE FORCED DISPATCHED BUT THEY ARE!!

TruckingPhotographer · Mar 10, 2010

smadronia said: ↑

The problem is that leasing in general is a bad idea, but people don't realize it. You're renting the vehicle, not actually buying it in most cases.
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DO NOT LEASE FROM THIS COMPANY WITHOUT A LAWYER PRESENT, AND ON RETAINER!

TruckingPhotographer · Mar 10, 2010

smadronia said: ↑

if you got the load moved up, you're lucky. Most of the walmart loads i've encountered could not be changed, and in some cases, it caused delivery to be pushed further out.

Why will your attorney find the photos interesting? When you signed the lease, you (well, jj, but you by relationship) agreed that if you refused a load, you couldbe subjected to a penalty wait. Granted, if you're in the shop, or some other accepted reason, they shouldn't iimpose the penalty, but "too much deadhead" is not a reasonable excuse to them.

I wish you luck in your suit, but remember that central has a lot of money to throw at lawyers, and once they get wind of your attorney planning anything, they will stall until you can't afford it. That's why people aren't winning against central, it's a war of attrition.
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higher a private investigator, i did once on a company and got the evidence i needed. Believe me they are not perfect , and money wise they don't have a lot to throw out the window at a lawsuit. Maybe their lawyers work for free. Lmao

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